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The Abramson Cancer Center is ground zero for the immense progress in the study and manufacture of gene therapies that have the potential to cure some types of cancer. But when the faculty and staff in the Center for Cellular Immunotherapies need a break, they spend time on a collaboration that’s decidedly low-tech: puzzles.

Increasingly, non-pharmaceutical approaches, including physical therapy, are being recommended as a “first-line treatment” for pain management.

Cryo-EM uses an electron beam to take thousands of snapshots of protein molecules—from, for example, a cell’s outer membrane or deep inside the nucleus—flash frozen in a thin layer of water.

Today, CKD – a disease where the kidneys progressively fail over time – affects nearly 33 million Americans and is expected to grow to 36 million over the next 10 years.

For the past four years, Julia Lavenberg, PhD, RN, has gone to the Clyde Barker Penn Transplant House at 40th and Walnut almost every Thursday evening to provide a little “taste” of home with her homemade baked goods for the pre- and post-transplant patients and their families who stay there.